Chapter 0679 There is a stick coming from the south!
Kou Ji and Liu Heng entered Xiazhou City.
Except for the soldiers and horses stationed on the streets of Xiazhou City, no one else was walking around.
The people in Xiazhou City were hiding in their houses, not daring to go out. They were lying in the cracks of doors and windows, looking out at the Song soldiers on the street.
Kou Ji rode his horse through the streets of Xiazhou City and saw the figure shaking in the crack of the door in front of the window, and frowned slightly.
Kou Ji turned his head and asked Liu Heng, who was traveling with him, "Someone set up an army to commit murder after entering the city?"
Liu Heng shook his head decisively.
"The Lord of Xiazhou City took the initiative to surrender. Before surrendering, Gao Chugong promised him not to touch the people in Xiazhou City. After we entered the city, we restrained our soldiers and horses and did not let our soldiers and horses offend the people.
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Kou Ji asked suspiciously: "Then why are the people hiding in their rooms and refusing to come out?"
Liu Heng glanced at Kou Ji and said nothing.
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and said in astonishment: "Is it related to me?"
Liu Heng nodded slowly and said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "When we entered the city, someone spread rumors that you are murderous. Now you have been assassinated. After entering Xiazhou City, you will definitely massacre the people in revenge."
Kou Ji laughed angrily when he heard this, "If I am really murderous, can they escape their lives by hiding in the room?"
Liu Heng also laughed, "Maybe the people think it would be safer to hide in their rooms."
Kou Ji put away the smile on his face slightly and asked in a deep voice: "Who did it and what is the purpose?"
Liu Heng replied: "Several scholars have been caught and interrogated. They said they were trying to protect themselves."
"Scholar? Protect yourself?"
Kou Ji looked stunned.
Liu Heng explained: "They are all scholars who escaped from the Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, they slandered the imperial court and were punished by the local government and arrested.
After they were captured, they used some money to smoothen their relationship and buy a chance to escape, and fled to Xixia."
Kou Ji frowned and said: "They lied one after another and slandered the imperial court. Even if they were caught, they would only be beaten with a stick. They would not kill them, nor would they distribute them. What kind of money did they use, and what kind of lives did they escape?"
Scholars had a transcendent status in the Song Dynasty.
Discussing government affairs is also a common thing.
Even if he slanders the imperial court, he cannot be severely punished.
It is simply impossible to spend money to buy your life.
Liu Heng curled his lips and said: "I thought so too, so I asked someone to re-examine it, but they have always said the same thing and never changed."
Kou Ji narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Your people are all from the Imperial City Division, and are proficient in all kinds of punishments. How can ordinary scholars withstand their methods?
Those few scholars could withstand their interrogation without changing their rhetoric, which means that they are not ordinary scholars at all and may be hiding big secrets.
Let your people review it carefully."
Liu Heng nodded and said: "My people have been interrogating."
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
The two rode horses through the streets of Xiazhou City and arrived at the Yamen of the Divine Warrior Army in the left wing of Xixia.
The reason why we went to the Xixia Zuoxiang Si Yamen instead of the City Lord's Mansion in Xiazhou City was because the Xixia Zuoxiang Shen Yongjun Si Yamen was far more luxurious than the Xiazhou City City Lord's Mansion.
Office spaces such as court halls, squad rooms, barracks, etc. are all available.
The Hengshan Army has now cleared the area south of Baichi City.
Before the three armies of Zhenguo, Xingguo and Zhenge arrived in Xiazhou, it was impossible for Kou Ji to continue sending troops northward.
Kou Ji had to wait until the three armies of Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge arrived in Xiazhou, wait for Zhu Neng and Zhong Shiheng to meet outside Qingjian City, and wait for Wang Kai to lead his troops to raid in from the easternmost border of Xixia.
While he was waiting, he needed to run errands in Xiazhou City and digest the Western Xia territory occupied by the Song Dynasty as soon as possible.
Kou Ji entered the Yamen of the Xixia Left Wing Shen Yong Army Division.
Gao Chugong and the Lord of Xiazhou City were already waiting for Kou Ji inside.
After Kou Ji arrived, after saluting, he started to get straight to the point.
Kou Ji sat in the middle of the court with a golden sword and asked: "Are the garrisons in various places properly arranged?"
Liu Heng cupped his hands and said, "I have assigned the soldiers and horses from Tiemenguan to various places for garrison."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, "Then instruct them to lead the people to resume farming as soon as possible."
The look on Liu Heng's face was a little unnatural.
Kou Ji asked: "Is there a problem?"
Liu Heng did not speak, but Gao Chugong said: "As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Now in the Xiazhou and other places we occupy, there is no shortage of soldiers, horses and people, but there is a serious shortage of herdsman officials.
Without the herdsman officials to help appease the people, the people would not believe us at all, let alone follow our instructions to restore mulberry farming.
Just like the people of Xiazhou City today..."
Kou Ji frowned and said: "The people in Xiazhou City don't believe us, that's because of the rumors. I will send people to clarify the rumors later. What are the people in other places doing for that? Is it also because of the rumors?
I haven't even started killing people yet, and my reputation for being murderous has already spread throughout Xixia?"
Gao Chugong said dryly: "The main reason is that no one comforts the people, and the people don't dare to believe us."
Kou Ji frowned and said, "Even if I write to the court now, asking for the transfer of officials, it will probably take a month for the court to gather the people and send them to us.
We don't have that much time to wait.
If they don’t believe us, then they don’t believe us.
Order us to go down and organize the people in Xiazhou and other places we occupy into groups for training, and use the same rules in the military camp to restrain them."
When the Lord of Xiazhou City heard what Kou Ji said, he was startled and said hurriedly: "Kou Jinglue should not treat the people so harshly. There are many good people among them."
"Are there many good people among them?"
Kou Ji sneered: "Does that mean there are more evil people among them?"
Xiazhou Chengcheng advocated opening his mouth, but did not speak.
A large part of the people living on the border of Xixia fled from the Song Dynasty.
Some were prisoners, and some fled to Xixia.
After they arrived in Xixia, they often helped Xixia people to make trouble for others.
It is precisely because of this that the Xixia people placed them on the border.
The purpose was to let them contribute when they invaded the Song Dynasty.
Most of the good people who were really robbed by the Xixia people were placed in Xingqing Mansion.
Helping the nobles of Xixia to herd horses and farm, they are heavily guarded.
The Lord of Xiazhou City could not refute Kou Ji's words and gritted his teeth and said: "If the Song Dynasty court cannot dispatch officials for a while, it can select one or two from the captured officials and temporarily appoint them as herdsmen officials."
Kou Ji said calmly: "I don't like being demoted, and I don't like those national thieves who were frustrated in the Song Dynasty and went to Xixia to help the tigers."
The lord of Xiazhou City stared at Kou Ji in shock.
But Kou Ji stopped taking care of him and told Gao Chugong and Liu Heng: "First distribute the idle fields in the place we occupy to the soldiers so that they can move their families here.
After their families come over, the original people of Xixia will be organized into a group for training.
When the time comes, our soldiers and their families will help us take them, and we don't have to worry about them causing trouble for us.
There are many villains among them. In order to prevent those villains from getting violent and hurting others, they must be restrained by strict military laws.
If there are no bad deeds within three years, you can be released from military status and restored to civilian status.
At that time, land will be allocated to them based on their performance in farming within the regiment."
Gao Chugong and Liu Heng looked at each other and nodded in unison.
Kou Ji continued: "We don't have much time, so we must handle the government affairs in Xiazhou and other places as soon as possible. Let's go down and do our errands."
Kou Ji didn't have much free time to identify the good and evil among the people, so he could only use this stupid method to let the kind people take the initiative to jump out.
Three years, for those kind-hearted people, is a hope.
Three years later, they will have a place that truly belongs to them and live the life they want.
Three years is a kind of torture for those villains.
They couldn't stand their loneliness and would definitely take the opportunity to make trouble. Kou Ji could just clean them up when they made trouble.
Three years was also Kou Ji's punishment for them.
They fled to Xixia and helped the Xixia people to make trouble for others. They must be punished.
What's more important is that Kou Ji has clearly decided to forget about the past and is ready to treat them as ordinary people.
But they don't trust the court like ordinary people at all.
A simple rumor inspired them to fight against the imperial court.
Then they need to undergo labor reform.
After Kou Ji's order was conveyed, Gao Chugong and Liu Heng took their soldiers to divide the areas, sent the soldiers back to pick up their families, and organized group training.
A flash.
Several days have passed.
The three armies of Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge arrived in Xiazhou.
One hundred and fifty thousand soldiers and horses poured into Xiazhou City in a mighty manner, filling Xiazhou City to the brim.
Kou Ji met with the chief generals of the three armies and horses in the yamen of the Divine Warrior Army in the left wing of Xixia.
Just when Kou Ji met with the commanders of the three armies and horses in the yamen of the Divine Warrior Army in the left wing of Xixia.
A group of eunuchs carrying torture sticks entered Xiazhou City.
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Kou Ji was drinking in the squad room with the commanders of the Zhenguo, Xinguo, and Zhenge armies. Suddenly, he heard a report from his subordinates that a eunuch had come from Bianjing City. Kou Ji was slightly stunned.
"Why did the eunuch come to Xiazhou?"
Kou Ji muttered and asked the commanders of the three armies of Zhenguo, Xinguo and Zhenge to drink first. He left the squad room and went to see the eunuch.
After leaving the class room, not long after walking, I saw several eunuchs sitting astride horses.
Unlike other eunuchs who are weak and weak, these eunuchs look very tall and powerful. In terms of appearance, they are not inferior to the fierce generals on the battlefield.
When several eunuchs saw Kou Ji, they did not dismount. Instead, they sat on the horse and stared at Kou Ji with complicated expressions. They saluted from a distance, "How is Kou Jinglue?"
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, nodded slowly, and asked, "Why did you come to the northwest if you didn't take me with you in the palace? Do the officials have something important to explain?"
Several eunuchs nodded in unison.
Kou Ji continued to ask: "What's the important matter?"
The eunuch did not hide anything and said decisively: "The official family sent slaves and others to impose punishment with the rod."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, took a few steps back, and stared at the eunuchs warily.
Kou Ji coughed dryly and asked, "Who has angered the officials and actually asked them to send people all the way to the northwest to perform punishments with sticks?"
The first thing Kou Ji thought of was himself.
Because only by treating him, Zhao Zhen would act so absurdly.
If someone else had offended Zhao Zhen, it would have been impossible for Zhao Zhen to send someone all the way to the northwest to impose a cane.
Zhao Zhen only needed to sit in the Chui Gong Hall and give a simple instruction.
The guy who offended Zhao Zhen had to be captured without mercy and escorted to Bianjing City to be tortured.
The eunuch still did not hide anything and said: "It's Ning Guogong Liu Heng..."
"Liu Heng?"
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, relaxed his guard, and then said with a look of astonishment: "Liu Heng pissed off the officials?"
Kou Ji frowned and said, "Liu Heng has been thousands of miles away, how could he possibly offend the officials?"
Kou Ji looked at several eunuchs.
Several eunuchs looked at each other.
The leading eunuch said to Kou Ji: "Don't ask Kou Jinglue, the officials don't let the slaves tell."
Kou Ji curled his lips and said: "I also issued a gag order. It seems that Liu Heng has caused a lot of trouble this time."
The leading eunuch bowed to Kou Ji and said: "Please also ask Kou Jinglue to inform the slaves and others about the whereabouts of Ning Guogong Liu Heng. The slaves and others will be executed with a stick."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "There are changes in Baichi City, so I sent him to Baichi City."
"Fourth brother, the trial is out! Big secret!"
As soon as Kou Jicheng finished lying to several eunuchs, Liu Heng appeared in front of people exclaiming.
Kou Ji's face turned dark instantly.
Several eunuchs looked at Kou Ji very strangely.
The eunuchs received orders from the emperor, and deceiving them is like deceiving the emperor.
Kou Ji coughed dryly and shouted at Liu Heng who was running over: "Didn't I send you to Baichi City? Why are you back?"
"Baichi City? What..."
Liu Heng looked stunned. Just as he was about to defend himself, he saw several eunuchs sitting on horses, staring at him quietly. He swallowed up the rest of his words in an instant.
Looking at the water and fire sticks carried on the backs of the eunuchs, he felt that they were coming for him.
Liu Heng also wanted to talk to Kou Ji, preparing to tell the lie.
Several eunuchs did not give him a chance.
The eunuchs jumped off their horses and quickly surrounded him.
The leading eunuch stared at Liu Heng and said in a deep voice: "Ning Guogong, the officials said that you bullied the king and should have been dismissed from office and sent to prison. But I thought you cut off Xiao Xiaomu's head and helped him grow longer."
For the sake of face, I'll let you go.
But the punishment should not be less.
Please invite Mr. Ning Guo to come to the stool."
After the leading eunuch gave an order, other eunuchs found a bench and placed it in front of Liu Heng.
Liu Heng knew why Zhao Zhen sent people all the way to beat him, so he did not resist and lay down on the bench with a grimace.
"Take off your pants!"
The leading eunuch gave the order again.
A eunuch came forward and took off Liu Heng's pants.
Liu Heng was shocked.
Kou Ji, who had been in a daze, was even more stunned when he saw this.
"Killing can only be done with a nod. Liu Heng is a duke after all. Even if the officials want to punish him, they should not humiliate him like this."